励志英语[双语]:环卫女工的硕士梦,用碎片时间拼出的奇迹

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环卫女工的硕士梦：用碎片时间拼出的奇迹

#33岁环卫女工回应考上硕士研究生#5月28日中午，成都理工大学的校园广播里播报了一个名字。坐在林荫道上的33岁环卫女工李佳，看着眼前一群群洋溢着青春笑容的同学，眼睛里闪烁着光芒。这一刻，她终于实现了那个看似遥不可及的梦想——真正地融入了他们。作为学校建校70年来首位考上研究生的环卫员工，李佳用一年的坚持证明了：起点低并不可怕，可怕的是停止奔跑。

李佳每天的工作是负责清扫学校东区传播科学与艺术学院门口的广场和公路。清晨5点半起床，6点准时到岗。当老师们在晨练，同学们抱着书本奔向教学楼时，这些充满活力的身影深深触动了她。“我想如果努力一把，会不会跟他们一样？”于是，在2025年4月，她决定重拾书本，目标直指自己工作地点旁边的文法学院。

对于一位带着两个孩子的母亲来说，学习时间从哪里来？李佳的答案是：碎片化学习。她的一天被切割成了无数个细小的缝隙。早上6点到岗，在完成保洁工作的间隙，她会默默回忆单词；中午11点半下班，利用做饭和午休的一个多小时抓紧看书刷题；下午循环保洁时，哪怕是十几分钟的空档，她也会掏出手机翻看提前拍好的知识点；到了晚上9点，孩子们入睡后，才迎来她每天最宝贵的深度学习时间，一直持续到深夜12点。

为了攻克专业课这个全新的领域，李佳几乎花费了80%的时间。每个月的假期，她选择泡在学校的图书馆里，利用办好的教职工一卡通去弄懂那些晦涩的专业问题。虽然无法报辅导班，但她通过做真题、听英语广播和刷题APP，一步步填补了知识的空白。

2026年4月7日下午，当拟录取通知弹出的那一刻，李佳刚接完孩子放学。她激动地给远在农村的母亲打了电话。这位曾经以为起点毫无优势的外来务工者，用实际行动诠释了“不甘人后，敢为人先”。李佳说，环卫工和考研人这两个身份并不冲突，都是为了更好的生活。她希望研究生毕业后，依然能留在成都理工，继续在这片给予她力量的土地上奋斗。

英文对照

A Sanitation Worker's Master's Dream: A Miracle Pieced Together by Fragmented Time

At noon on May 28, a name was announced over the campus radio of Chengdu University of Technology. Sitting on the boulevard was Li Jia, a 33-year-old female sanitation worker. Watching groups of young students beaming with youthful smiles before her, a light shone in her eyes. At this moment, she finally realized that seemingly unreachable dream—truly becoming one of them. As the first sanitation employee in the school's 70-year history to be admitted as a graduate student, Li Jia proved with a year of persistence: a low starting point is not terrifying; what is terrifying is to stop running.

Li Jia's daily job involves cleaning the square and road in front of the College of Communication Science and Art in the East District of the university. She gets up at 5:30 every morning and arrives at her post at 6:00 sharp. When teachers are exercising in the morning and students are rushing to teaching buildings with books in hand, these vibrant figures deeply touched her. "I thought, if I tried hard, could I be like them?" So, in April 2025, she decided to pick up her books again, aiming directly at the School of Humanities and Law right next to her workplace.

For a mother of two children, where does the time for study come from? Li Jia's answer is: fragmented learning. Her day was sliced into countless tiny gaps. Arriving at work at 6:00 AM, she would silently recite vocabulary during breaks between cleaning tasks; at 11:30 AM, after getting off work, she seized the hour or so during cooking and lunch breaks to read and solve problems; in the afternoon, during cleaning rounds, even a gap of just ten minutes was used to take out her phone and review knowledge points she had photographed in advance; it was not until 9:00 PM, after the children fell asleep, that she welcomed the most precious deep learning time of the day, lasting until midnight.

To conquer the completely new territory of professional courses, Li Jia spent almost 80% of her time on them. On her days off each month, she chose to immerse herself in the university library, using her staff card to figure out obscure professional problems. Although she could not afford tutoring classes, she filled the gaps in her knowledge step by step by doing real exam questions, listening to English broadcasts, and using question bank apps.

On the afternoon of April 7, 2026, the moment the admission notice popped up, Li Jia had just picked up her child from school. She excitedly called her mother in the countryside. This migrant worker, who once thought she had no advantage in her starting point, interpreted the spirit of "daring not to fall behind and daring to be the first" with practical actions. Li Jia said that the identities of a sanitation worker and a graduate candidate do not conflict; both are for a better life. She hopes that after graduating, she can still stay at Chengdu University of Technology and continue to struggle on this land that has given her strength.

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